Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 5:29 PM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 1998, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:47 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Scott, OH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 24, 2:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 120 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998 FORECAST CONCERN OVERNIGHT IS SEVERE WEATHER/HEAVY PRECIP THREAT.. KLOT RADAR INDICATING RATHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX ACROSS NCNTRL ILLINOIS WORKING QUICKLY EASTWARD. COMPLEX SHOULD AFFECT NORTHERN HALF OF OUR FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. EVEN THOUGH CLOUD COVER HAS KEPT TEMPS AT BAY... LATEST ADAS SHOWING CAPE VALUES OVER 3000 J/KG FOR THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA. VWP INDICATING FAVORABLE WINDS FOR DAMAGING WINDS.. AND EXPECT COMPLEX TO MAINTAIN ITS INTENSITY. ETA/NGM BOTH SUGGESTING AT MCS DEVELOPMENT LATER TONIGHT OVER EASTERN IOWA.. WITH THICKNESS FIELDS INDICATING MOVEMENT TOWARD NORTHERN INDIANA. MID LEVEL WINDS REMAIN QUITE FAVORABLE FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS THROUGH THE NIGHT...AND WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE MENTION OF SEVERE ALL NIGHT IN THE ZONES. THICKNESS DIFFLUENCE ACROSS THE AREA COMBINED WITH PWAT VALUES OVER 1.6 INCHES AND A STRONG THETA-E RIDGE ACROSS THE AREA LEAD ME TO RECOMMEND MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE FORECAST AS WELL. CHANCE POPS PROBABLY IN ORDER FOR WESTERN HALF OF FA TOMORROW.. SURFACE FRONT APPROACHING AROUND MIDDAY SHOULD FINALLY BRING AN END TO PRECIP THREAT. SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS IN ORDER FOR EASTERN HALF OF AREA AS MODEL SOUNDINGS SUGGEST ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR THUNDERSTORMS. LATER PERIODS OF FORECAST APPEAR QUIET. FWC/FAN TEMPS DIFFER A BIT&...ESPECIALLY IN LATER PERIODS. BEST GUESS AT THIS POINT IS A COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE TWO. SBN 070/080 060/082 059 09830 FWA 071/086 062/084 060 09740 AOH 071 087 063/085 061 09741 .IWX...NONE. MARGRAF!
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:07 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
407 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0404 PM 2 E ADAMSVILLE MI WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CASS TREE FELL ON PICKUP
TRUCK CRUSHING ITLocal storm report, Aug 24, 5:07 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
407 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0404 PM 2 E ADAMSVILLE MI WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CASS TREE FELL ON PICKUP
TRUCK CRUSHING ITLocal storm report, Aug 24, 5:10 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
410 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM CHURUBUSCO IN WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 WHITLEY TREE FELL INTO A
HOUSE...CAR HIT BY TREELocal storm report, Aug 24, 5:10 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
410 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM CHURUBUSCO IN WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 WHITLEY TREE FELL INTO A
HOUSE...CAR HIT BY TREELocal storm report, Aug 24, 5:13 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
413 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0411 PM HELMER IN 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/24/98 STEUBENLocal storm report, Aug 24, 5:13 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
413 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0411 PM HELMER IN 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/24/98 STEUBENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Steuben | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 6:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Marshall | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash, Whitley | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 5:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Williams | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 5:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 6:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Williams | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 6:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 6:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Williams | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 7:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 7:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 7:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Fulton, Henry, Williams | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 8:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Putnam | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 8:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding, Williams | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry, Putnam | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 3:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 4:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 4:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 5:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 5:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.